Access tape device from remote system

[Richard Ray]

Can someone tell me how I might access a tape device, /dev/rmt/XX, on a HP/UX 10.20 or 11.00 system from a Linux workstation using rdump?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Richard,

Try the man pages,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/B2355-90681_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/00/00/67-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90681/00/00/67-toc.html&searchterms=rdump&queryid=20020305-114041

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Frank Slootweg]

If the Linux rdump also uses rmt(1M) like a normal BSD rdump would, then it should work.

See the comments about /usr/sbin/rmt and /etc/rmt in the HP-UX rdump(1M) manual page and the HP-UX rmt(1M) manual page. On HP-UX, /etc/rmt is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/rmt.

For rmt(1M) to work, a r[em]sh(1), as root, should work, i.e. first get this to work (without giving a password):

linux_host # r[em]sh hp-ux_host date